Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Jay Maisel - Page 2

Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

You need minimum color for maximum effect.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

You see shape, and how the light hits things, how the color changes from one end of the photo to the other, and how movement affects the mood of the photo.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.

I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

The problem suggests the solution.

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

You cannot accurately remember color.

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other rather than interacting with each other. The results" colors.